Maker

Discover the stories and people behind products.
Every product has a maker and every maker has a story. We’re building the first network to discover and share the stories and people behind products. As consumers, we increasingly seek to know where our things come from and who makes our products. These authentic, ...

DreamFunded

Access to Highly Vetted Startups and Proven Tech Companies
DreamFunded is the only equity based platform that offers the seed and proven startups in Silicon Valley with completed due diligence reports to accredited investors. An exciting and new division of DreamFunded is live http://exchange.dreamfunded.com. We currently ...

Udemy

The world's largest destination for online courses.
We believe that in 5 years, the best education in the world will be available online. Udemy is a platform that enables any expert to create an online course - it's fast, easy and free. Just as blogging opened up online publishing to millions of writers, or YouTube ...

Shelf.com

Value your stuff.
Shelf is changing the way people think about ownership. The average US household has $7,000 worth of unused items sitting around. Imagine if interested people could offer you money for those items, without you lifting a finger. Shelf allows you to get offers ...

Zaarly

Zaarly helps you discover and hire the most amazing local service providers.
We're building the best place in the world for people to make money doing what they love. We're a two sided marketplace for local services that is fixing what is broken in one of the largest (and most difficult) markets in the world. We hope to redefine what ...

Boatbound

The leading "pier-to-pier" boat rental marketplace in the world
Boatbound is the nation’s fastest growing boat rental marketplace. Over 13 million registered boat owners can now offset their boat ownership costs by renting their boat to pre-screened, qualified renters. Every rental includes up to $3 million in insurance protection ...

Getaround

Airbnb for Cars
Getaround is a community marketplace for underutilized personal vehicles. Rent by the hour, day, or week. Complete insurance is included. Our patent-pending Getaround Carkit, iPhone app, and web app enable consumers to carshare anywhere. It's free to join and ...

HomeLight

Moneyball for Real Estate
At HomeLight, we are ambitiously revolutionizing the $2.2 trillion housing industry, long known for its lack of innovation. We believe that by democratizing information, we can empower consumers to make smarter real estate decisions. HomeLight is the best way ...

Storenvy

We bring unique, original, and authentic stores to life and introduce them to the world.
Storenvy is two products combined into a first-of-its-kind, e-commerce network. Storenvy is a lightweight, powerful social store builder powering 100K+ stores (ex: http://cl.ly/2q3d0O0G0v1b). Launch a store for free in < 5 min. And the Storenvy Marketplace (our ...

TenderTree

Marketplace for senior care
TenderTree allows families to find and hire trusted caregivers. Our platform and mobile app manage payments, payroll/taxes, insurance - all online. Americans spend $80B on home health care for the elderly. It's a massive market that's almost entirely offline ...

Red Tricycle

Connecting Families With Awesome
Red Tricycle is launching the first marketplace connecting parents with awesome things to do. Armed with over 1 M users in 9 US cities, 6k vendors, and strong consumer trust, Red Tricycle is poised to disrupt a broken model and make it easier for parents to plan ...

GAIN Fitness

Mobile + In-Person Personal Training
A personal fitness service that combines certified personal trainers, mobile apps and cloud technology to deliver fitness results. How it works: - Meet your trainer in-person, 1-4x each month. - Get personalized, guided mobile app workouts from your trainer. - ...

Postmates

On Demand Delivery
Postmates is transforming the way local goods move around a city by enabling anyone to get any product delivered in under one hour. Postmates' revolutionary urban logistics & on-demand delivery platform connects customers with local couriers, who purchase and deliver ...

Directly

On-demand customer service apps.
Directly builds on-demand business apps. Fast-growing companies like Pinterest, Lyft and Republic Wireless use our customer service apps to scale support and improve customer experience. The apps integrate with help desk software like Zendesk, Desk and Salesforce, ...

UpCounsel

Making the legal experience remarkable
UpCounsel provides businesses a technology powered alternative to the slow and expensive legal services of traditional law firms. Through UpCounsel, businesses can access high quality, on-demand and cost-effective independent legal professionals for ad hoc or ongoing ...

Asseta

eBay for Spare Parts and Capital Equipment (YC S13)
(Please see the link to our deck for more information.) Asseta is fundamentally changing the way manufacturers purchase and sell manufacturing parts and equipment by providing a centralized platform to a fragmented and opaque market. Asseta is going after a $200B ...

Shyp

The easiest way to ship your stuff.
Shyp is the easiest way to ship your stuff. The mobile app provides an easy on demand shipping experience. A Shyp Hero comes to you, collects your items, then takes them away to be professionally packed and shipped to their destination. Shyp is transforming how ...

Boost Media

Ad Creative Optimization for Enterprise Online Advertisers
Boost Media is the only cloud-based platform that combines human talent with software to scale relevant content by optimizing search, social, and image messaging. Our Optimizer Network is a tightly vetted group of thousands of content creators that work to reach ...

42Floors

Discover and create your dream office
42Floors was founded in November of 2011 with the vision of making it easy to discover and create your dream office space. Based in San Francisco, California, the 42Floors team is made up of experienced entrepreneurs and engineers with a passion for making the ...

Whale Path

Business Research On-Demand for Corporations (500 Startups Batch 8)
Whale Path is a Crowdsourced Market Intelligence Platform where over 13,000 analysts compete through research challenges to provide customers with proprietary and reliable market data & analysis to empower their business decisions. Customers request research by ...

Storefront

Connecting brands with retail spaces
Storefront is the world's largest online marketplace that helps merchants find and rent the best retail spaces. We make it simpler to run a retail store through streamlining the rental process. From finding retail spaces to payment and insurance, Storefront makes ...

PerkHub

Profitable perks platform/marketplace used by Time Warner, American Airlines, TriNet, more
PerkHub is an enterprise SaaS company that powers perks and group buying programs for some of the world's leading companies. Our customers include American Airlines, TriNet, Google and the .CO domain.

Thumbtack

Accomplish your personal projects
Thumbtack helps you accomplish the personal projects that are central to your life. Whether you need to paint your home, learn a new language, or plan your daughter's birthday party, Thumbtack is the easiest and most dependable way to hire the right professional ...

Munchery

Wholesome Meals in a Snap
Munchery is reinventing the weeknight dinner, and making it ridiculously easy to put a high-quality dinner on the table. Dinner can be a boring and often dreaded experience. You’re too busy to cook, donʼt have time to shop, and you’re frankly out of ideas about ...

DroneDeploy

Ex-Google & 2 PhDs building a command platform for drones (AngelPad S'13)

Getable

On demand construction equipment
Getable makes renting equipment easy for construction contractors and suppliers. We are an on-demand equipment rental application and have been called the "Uber for construction equipment." Getable's enterprise, B2B platform serves the $41 billion U.S. construction ...

Lovely

Building a marketplace for rentals
Lovely is the first real rental marketplace that helps renters find the homes they want quickly and easily and helps property owners and managers find the best tenants. We're a passionate 15-person team that knows from personal experience just how painful it can ...

Visually

On-demand creative services
Visually simplifies the production and distribution of visual content through a marketplace that brings together creators (designers, analysts, journalists, and developers) with customers to create content for use in publications, presentations, and advertising ...

Balanced

Payments for Marketplaces & Crowdfunding
Balanced is white-labeled payments API and web-based dashboard. Specifically, we offer two products: Balanced Payouts and Balanced Processing, which can be coupled. We really like working with marketplaces and ad networks, but Balanced can be used for any type ...

BetterDoctor

Find a doctor you'll love
BetterDoctor is a comprehensive doctor search tool that brings transparency to healthcare. Since the launch in 2012 BetterDoctor web and mobile apps have helped 20,000,000 patients find the right doctor. The company is backed by the first tier investors including ...

StyleSeat

Largest and fastest growing marketplace in the $78B beauty and wellness industry
StyleSeat is the platform for professionals in the beauty and wellness industry to run and grow their business, specifically tailored to their needs. Consumer facing StyleSeat.com is the OpenTable for beauty & wellness appointments.

Experiment

Make Science Go Faster
Experiment is a crowdfunding platform for scientific research. Research funding today is broken. How we fund scientific research will be vastly different in 20 years, and the future direction is towards an open and democratic platform for funding science. Researchers ...

Airbnb

Discover amazing places to stay—or rent out your own!

Pillow

Leveraging technology & data to build the #1 hospitality platform for short-term rentals
We enable our hosts and guests to rest easy knowing we deliver on the 'Pillow Promise.'  For hosts, the 'Pillow Promise' means we maximize your income and care for your home.  For guests it means we deliver an authentic and reliable hospitality experience. Traditional ...

Unwind Me

Massage Made Simple: The best therapists, straight to you, at an affordable price (YC S14)
Unwind Me is the easiest way to book & receive a high-quality, professional massage. For customers, we’re improving the accessibility of massage: simplified booking and payment (via online/mobile), appointments when and where you want (in-home), a lower price ...

Hired

The Marketplace for Talent
Hired makes hiring, or getting hired, less painful through a two-sided marketplace that connects top talent with over 1,600 fast-growing companies. Hired is the only marketplace designed to give job seekers transparency and control over their job search with one ...

Wholeshare

Group-based marketplace for sustainable food
Wholeshare helps people access good quality, affordable food by organizing group purchases. By shopping as a group, members increase their purchasing power, making it worthwhile for local farmers and distributors to deliver directly to them. Dealing directly with ...

Wello

Personal training anytime, anywhere
Wello connects consumers with fitness professionals over LIVE, INTERACTIVE video for individual and group workout sessions. Imagine working out with a personal trainer in your living room using just your laptop or tablet. Wello matches clients with the right ...

Greenstart

Seed investments in digital innovations that improve the world.
Seed investments in digital innovations that improve the world. www.greenstart.com

Rinse

Dry Cleaning. Laundry. Peace of Mind.
Rinse (www.rinse.com) has created a seamless Dry Cleaning & Laundry experience to take care of its customers’ most time consuming and repetitive household chore – cleaning their clothes.  Through a combination of incredible customer service, mobile technology, ...

StudySoup

The #1 P2P College Learning Marketplace (500 Startups- Batch 10)
StudySoup is the best way for college students learn from one another online. We help top students make money by providing notes, study guides, and tutoring services for their peers. Current academic supplementary services are disjointed, and have failed to transition ...

Roost

The leading p2p marketplace for storage space. (500 Startups B12)
Storage facilities can be a pain. Affordable ones are far away, and anything within city limits is ridiculously expensive. Yet, we all need space… so much so, that americans spend 30B/ year on storage units. Wouldn’t it be great if we could just find affordable ...

Boostable

Advertising for sellers on marketplaces (YC W14).
Advertising made easy for marketplace sellers. Boostable grows marketplaces by helping their sellers advertise online. - Sellers instantly sign up with their store URL and launch their ads. - Boostable automatically builds and runs the ads for them. - Sellers ...

Opencare

Data-driven doctor recommendations
Opencare recommends you the perfect doctor. We analyze millions of data points from over 75,000 registered doctors across North America to get the best care for every patient. Our team has 10+ years of experience building healthcare technology companies, with ...

Instamotor

The most trusted mobile P2P car marketplace.
INSTAMOTOR IS THE MOST TRUSTED PEER-TO-PEER CAR MARKETPLACE. The private-party car market is broken and full of fraud that cost buyers billions of dollars a year - odometer rollback fraud alone accounts for $1B per year (U.S. DOT). Instamotor is an app that changes ...

Headout

HotelTonight for Tours & Travel Experiences
Headout is an on-demand mobile marketplace that helps travelers discover & book the most incredible tours, activities, events & local experiences in town for the next 24 hours at incredible prices. All it takes is 3 taps and 60 seconds. We combine the convenience ...

Assembly

Community platform for building & running software products
Assembly is a web collaboration platform that allows anyone around the world to build software apps collectively while retaining ownership and receiving profit for their contributions. Each month Assembly rewards contributors by splitting the apps’ proceeds between ...

HoneyBook

Reorganizing the Events Industry
HoneyBook is on a mission to reorganize huge industries starting with events. We've built a service we're proud of and our customers love. Our entire team cares deeply about design, and we are all passionate about creating the most modern, delightful experience ...

SmartShoot

The marketplace for photographers and filmmakers
SmartShoot gets customers high-quality video & photos by connecting them with trusted professional filmmakers & photographers who pitch for their business. Post a video or photo project for free and receive pitches and bids within minutes from over 10,000 vetted, ...

Coffee Meets Bagel

Daily curated introduction service through your friend network
Every day at noon, Coffee Meets Bagel introduces you to one single who is a friend of a friend. You must LIKE or PASS your match (aka "Bagels") within 24 hours. Mutual LIKE leads to a direct SMS connection on a private phone line that expires in 7 days. It only ...

Verbling

Video chat with language teachers
Verbling’s mission is to empower people all over the world to become fluent in a foreign language. We use online live video technology to help people develop their skills together with teachers and students on a global scale. The core team is based in San Francisco. ...

Equidate

The marketplace for startup equity
Equidate is a marketplace that gives private investors unprecedented access and exposure to top pre-IPO companies. It also allows employees of growing startups to get cash for a portion of their shares without having to wait years to take advantage of their company’s ...

BloomThat

Send a little something! Fresh Stems + Sweet Surprises
BloomThat is on a mission to make sending a little something a big movement. Founded in 2013 in San Francisco by friends David Bladow, Matthew Schwab and Chad Powell, the on-demand feel-good service celebrates life’s many milestones (and all the little moments ...

Neighborly

Community Investment Marketplace
Neighborly connects people with opportunities to earn safe, stable income by investing in the places and civic projects they care about. Our mission is to demystify and democratize access to the municipal securities market. Built with Millennials in mind, Neighborly ...

Mitoo

The platform for the world's sports
The platform for the world's sports. > Players, Parents, Friends, Teams, Clubs, Leagues > Governing Bodies, Brands

Scripted

Original content for businesses
Scripted is the leading provider of high-quality, original written content. Since 2011, Scripted has provided content for thousands of companies ranging from SMB to Enterprise. With a network of 7,000 vetted writers, Scripted consistently delivers content for a ...

Onfleet

Delightful Delivery Management
Our mission is to make local delivery efficient and delightful. Onfleet makes it easy for businesses to manage and analyze their delivery operations. Our product includes a clean web dashboard, rich APIs, out-of-the-box driver apps for iOS and Android, and customer ...

DOZ

SaaS enabled Marketplace for Marketing
DOZ makes hundred of curated marketers work together to drive qualified audience to DOZ clients' sites. Marketing professionals are automatically identified and qualified based on their location, industry knowledge, skills and social proofs. DOZ system assigns ...

CircleUp

equity crowdfunding for high growth consumer companies
CircleUp is one of the world’s largest equity crowdfunding platforms. We believe in helping consumer/retail companies by giving them the access to the capital and resources they need to grow their business. We also work with investors by matching them with companies ...

Triptrotting

eHarmony for like-minded travelers and locals
On Triptrotting travelers discover dream destinations and connect with like-minded locals, who help them plan an amazing trip. Travelers and locals are connected based on a matching algorithm that identifies common interests, backgrounds and personalities. Since ...

Videopixie

Video production marketplace
Videopixie is a marketplace for video production. Businesses use Videopixie to make web shows, animated explainers, promotional videos, online courses and much more. There are 1000+ video production professionals on videopixie, including videographers, editors, ...

Colingo

Airbnb for English-teaching
Colingo lets the world learn to speak real English - from real people. Our live, social school blends live group classes, great American teachers, a structured curriculum, and collaborative learning with students from all over the world. Our vision is to innovate ...

Buzzstarter

Content marketing in a box
Buzzstarter is the world's first scalable content marketing platform. It works by matching any type of content marketing asset (video, article, list-icle, etc.) with the right audience across a massive network of blogs and publishers. Sony, Yahoo!, and Unilever ...

Geekatoo

Uber for Tech Support
The US consumer and SMB tech support market is projected to hit $30B by 2015. Geekatoo has about 4,500 local providers tackling computer repair, networking, virus removal, home theater installation, web design, photo, video, and more. Clients purchase a SKU, with ...

Kitchit

Chef powered dinner parties for $39
At Kitchit, we believe eating with others enriches our lives and deepens our connections to our community. We are passionate about food’s ability to connect people and have pioneered a powerful way to elevate the experience well beyond a traditional restaurant. ...

WePlann

WePlann - The Easiest Way for the LatAm Tourist to Discover & Book Vacation Activities
WePlann is the easiest way for the Latin American tourist to discover & book vacation activities, disrupting the traditionally offline, highly fragmented $10 Billion Latin American leisure activities market (shows, attractions, tours). WePlann is growing 300% ...

Raise.me

We're reinventing financial aid.
The college landscape today is broken for millions of students. Equal access to higher ed has become one of the greatest issues of our time. At Raise.me, we're reinventing educational pathways and changing the way students access billions of dollars each year ...

SupplyBetter

Custom mechanical part sourcing. Simplified.
We help people make physical things. Specifically, we perform intelligent matching to help mechanical design engineers find the best contract manufacturers to manufacture custom mechanical parts, with an initial focus on 3D printing in the United States. Hardware ...

YogaTrail

The World's Yoga Network
YogaTrail is a yoga network where people find, follow, and connect with yoga teachers, studios, and yoga retreats. Right now, millions of people rely on word of mouth to find their yoga classes and instructors - and knowing when and where their instructors will ...

OpenLabel

Twitter meets Yelp for billions of barcoded products.
OpenLabel is a consumer-facing mobile platform that puts a public comment space on the barcode of every product in the world. Consumers and organizations can now scan any product with their mobile device and instantly see and share all information we *wish* were ...

Rise

Affordable & effective 1:1 nutrition coaching
Rise is a consumer mobile service that’s committed to helping people lead healthier lives through a mix of smart design, data science and real human connections. Rise has developed a mobile app that makes it possible to connect people with their own personal nutrition ...

Apartment List

Building the world's most extraordinary rental experience.
At Apartment List, we're building the world's most extraordinary rental experience. We help renters find their perfect living situation by curating and presenting the largest supply of available rentals in a beautifully designed interface, along with a personalized ...

Crowdcurity

Crowdsourced Application Security
Crowdcurity is an application security marketplace. We crowdsource security researchers and connect them with businesses. Crowd-powered security audits and bug bounty programs as-a-service. We enable any business to create their own security program in few easy ...

AnyRoad

Modernizing commerce in the tourism industry
AnyRoad is revolutionizing travel by combining proven strategies (long-tail supply aggregation) with cutting-edge mobile capabilities (on-demand capacity utilization) with delightful consumer UX. We're doing to the tourism industry what OpenTable did to restaurants. ...

Eaze

"Uber" for Medical Marijuana
1) WHAT: Eaze is an on-demand healthcare delivery service that enables patients to access medical marijuana easily, quickly and professionally. Eaze links dispensaries and their drivers to patients. 2) HOW: Eaze gets patients their medicine in about 10 minutes ...

Eversnap Photography

Easy, Affordable, Professional Photography for All Life Events - 30% m.o.m. growth
Eversnap Photography provides pre-approved professional photographers to your company or family event at 50% of market price ($60/Hr). Booked by 100+ organizers, parents, and conference organizers, Eversnap Photography has grown over 100% growth m/m in revenue ...

LearnUp

Reinventing job training
LearnUp is on a mission to solve the skills gap by empowering entry-level jobseekers to learn the skills needed to get hired. We develop online training in partnership with employers that enables job seekers to practice real life situations of a particular job. ...

Treatful

acquired by OpenTable
Treatful is about sending personalized and thoughtful restaurant experiences to friends & family. In addition, Treatful.com: • Enables users to personalize, purchase, and instantly send restaurant e-gifts to recipients • Identifies and suggests gift giving events ...

Underground Cellar

Online Wine Deals Without Bastardizing Brands
Underground Cellar is a new online wine marketplace for discovering and buying premium wines online. Buyers love us because every bottle they buy may be randomly upgraded to rare and private-stash bottles from prestigious wineries. But our real benefit is that ...

RecruitLoop

Elastic Recruiting: Marketplace of recruiters on-demand
RecruitLoop is a platform for Elastic Recruiting. It's a curated marketplace of recruiters, on-demand at hourly rates. Why Elastic Recruiting? Employers hire an expert recruiter for any part of the process, as much or little as they need. It’s flexible, fast, ...

Goldbely

Etsy for Food
Goldbely is a marketplace that enables consumers to buy food directly from the country's best independent food makers. Our vision is an online marketplace that connects curious eaters with America's best gourmet food purveyors. We are creating an alternative to ...

UrbanSitter

Find and book a trusted sitter online
For millions of busy parents across the US, finding a reliable babysitter is a daunting task. UrbanSitter is the first all-in-one solution—a hyper efficient childcare marketplace where parents meet and book sitters. Our premise is simple, when it comes to finding ...

Greentoe

Name your price for products (YC S14)
Greentoe is a website that allows consumers to name their "all in" price for a product, including tax and shipping. Retailers then bid for their business. The first retailer to meet the customer's price wins, and every retailer is certified to ensure quality.

FOBO

The fastest, easiest way to sell your electronics
"FOBO Launches In San Francisco To Become The Fastest, Easiest Way To Sell Your Consumer Electronics" - TechCrunch

KITE

Connecting Startups with Agencies & Brands
KITE is the world's first software-driven innovation marketplace. Our platform includes a robust database, collaboration tools and a marketplace to help enterprises discover, evaluate, rate and partner with emerging technology and emerging media companies. Currently, ...

RoomHunt

"Next Generation Craigslist" (JFE S'13)
What if everyone could live in a high quality and affordable apartment? That's the disruptive premise behind RoomHunt, a website where Renters can access over 100,000+ apartment rental listings. Just type in the city and filter by budget, bedrooms, and amenities.

Zumper

Search & Apply for your next apartment rental with one click. Series-A backed by KPCB
The awesome team at Zumper is building the next generation of house and apartment rental platforms. With a twinned consumer and B2B approach, Zumper built the first ever search-through-close rental platform where a renter can pull out their phone and make an instant ...

BuildZoom

Hire a great general contractor for any project
BuildZoom is the intelligent marketplace for remodeling and construction services. The company simplifies the process of selecting a home improvement contractor and improving the outcomes of remodeling and construction projects. There are several ways for a property ...

Hipstermaid

Zero to clean in 30 seconds.
Hipstermaid lets anyone book a house cleaning in 30 seconds, with no phone calls, no quotes, and no back-and-forth. Just visit our website, enter a few basic details, and pick when to start your service. Your credit card gets stored and charged automatically after ...

Holidog

The Global Marketplace for Pet Owners
Holidays – traditionally a time to relax and have fun - have always been a hassle for pet owners! Where do you leave your pet while you are on vacation? Until recently, the only solution available was kennels or 'dog hotels' - often serving to provide prison-like ...

IdeaMarket

Matching Ideas, Money, and Entrepreneurs to create Startups
IdeaMarket is an online marketplace, where ideas, money and talent connect efficiently then combine to create successful companies. Entrepreneurs face a grind in targeting ideas that fulfill a need and attract investors. Investors have to slog through hundreds ...

Periscope

Explore the world in real-time through someone else's eyes
Periscope lets you see the world in real time through someone else's eyes. Where would you explore, if you could teleport somewhere and be in somebody else's shoes? You'll be able to learn more about Periscope later this year. Please reach out to us if you're ...

Wevorce

Changing Divorce For Good
Wevorce is a national divorce company that keeps families out of court using our high-tech & high-touch approach to amicable divorce. Wevorce’s software supported process connects families with Wevorce certified mediators across the country. We help mitigate ...

ShareDesk

World's largest platform for flexible workplaces
ShareDesk provides Flexible Workplace Solutions for Enterprise. With a network of over 1,800+ locations spread across 69 countries, ShareDesk provides a platform for mobile professionals to discover and book serviced offices and meeting facilities around the world. ...

Taulia

Taulia helps Global 2000 corporations save tens of millions of dollars annually by enabling their suppliers to opt for earlier payment of approved invoices against a discount. The Global 2000 invest excess liquidity risk-free for double-digit returns. Taulia ...

CodeLesson

We connect real human instructors with professionals who want to learn to code.
We provide a platform and a marketplace that makes it easy to teach and learn technology online. The fact that our courses are taught by real human experts (instead of canned videos, etc.) is our competitive differentiator. We offer a mix of free and paid courses. ...

Share Some Style

Uber for personal styling
We help men and women look great and feel more confident. There's no one place to become more confident in your personal style. Magazines aren't personalized. Sales associates are too pushy. Friends don't have the expertise. Traditional stylists are too expensive. And ...

Open Garden

You Are the Network
Connecting the next five billion mobile devices to the Internet. Open Garden is a 100% software-based mobile broadband network made of peer-to-peer connections between devices including smartphones, tablets, laptops and wearables. Open Garden leverages the density ...

DesignCrowd

Crowdsourcing creativity and design.
DesignCrowd.com is a marketplace for crowdsourced creativity. We help business outsource or 'crowdsource' graphic, logo and web design ideas from designers around the world. DesignCrowd fixes a number of problems with the traditional design industry. DesignCrowd ...

KidAdmit

Giving your kids every opportunity
KidAdmit is a fast growing marketplace for children’s programs - from every dance, sport, art class & music lesson to birthday parties, camps & even school. Parents spend BILLIONS of dollars on education & activities but the process has remained laborious & inefficient. ...

Merchbar

The online retailer for music merchandise
Merchbar is the best place to discover and buy music merchandise. Our first product is an iPhone app built to make discovering fun and purchasing a snap. We automatically personalize every customer's experience by creating a custom feed of gear they'll love ...

Consumer by Flight.vc

Investing in the Top Consumer Companies and Entrepreneurs
The syndicate invests in technology companies that touch the consumer, but can span across a variety of sectors and verticals. The founder was an angel in LinkedIn, Evite, Paypal and a number of other leading consumer companies. The syndicate will invest in ...

Tastemaker

Interior design marketplace
Tastemaker is an interior design marketplace & e-commerce site. Get your own home makeover for a reasonable price, and let us handle all the details.

popexpert

Learn life & work skills from experts for a happier, healthier, more productive you.
Learn life and work skills directly from top experts for a happier, healthier, more productive you. From mindfulness to entrepreneurship and all the skills between, popexpert makes it easy to learn what you need to excel. Get access to original classes and personalized ...

Cozymeal

welcome to the chef's table
Cozymeal personally connects food lovers with local professional chefs. Through cooking classes, private dining experiences, and market tours, our guests embark on culinary adventures. At Cozymeal, we give you more than just an ordinary night out—we bring you to ...

Ridejoy

Share rides with friendly people
Ridejoy is a community marketplace for rides ― currently operating all along the West Coast. If you're going on a trip, you can list extra seat space in your car, and if you need to get somewhere, you can find a ride, using our site.

Keychain Logistics

Virtual carrier network and shipping marketplace
Keychain Logistics is a software marketplace that directly connects companies shipping products with independent semi-truck owner-operators. Our platform effectively cuts out the traditional third-party logistics brokerage process by virtue of a software enabled ...

Inzopa

Marketplace for Skills (Connecting Consumers to Mortgage Brokers)
Linkedin = Resume whereas Inzopa = Transaction History + Yelp reviews for bankers and realtors. Target sector - Housing. Launch geography - San Francisco.

Remoov

The simplest way to declutter. One pickup to sell, donate and discard all unwanted items.
Remoov is the simple way to declutter. We help you sell, donate and discard your household goods such as furniture, electronics, appliances, sporting goods, etc, saving you time, space and money. Our mission is to reduce waste by increasing reuse. 

SWIG!

Beer & Liquor Shelf Stocking for SMBs
SWIG! is a crowdsourced alcohol delivery service. We offer curated party & gift boxes like "The Funemployment Special" and "The Tijuana Weekend Bender." SWIG! shoppers assemble each box on the fly, leveraging unique local inventory data, exclusive vendor relationships ...

99Gamers

Largest and fastest growing video game marketplace
99Gamers is the easiest way to buy and sell video games directly with other gamers. All 100% free. We’re turning over the power of retailers like GameStop to everyday gamers by cutting out the middleman and providing a trusted platform for members to sell games ...

CloudPeeps

Match with the world's top freelance community, content and marketing professionals
CloudPeeps is a marketplace that matches businesses with the world’s top freelance community, content and marketing professionals. Customers (including startups, tech companies, professional services and agencies) use CloudPeeps to help build or manage their ...

VenueSpot

VenueSpot is an online marketplace where venues bid to host events.
VenueSpot is an online marketplace that helps event organizers find venues. Whether you need a venue for a meeting, product launch, or holiday party; we take the frustrating process of finding a venue from 8 days down to a few clicks. Tell us what you need, receive ...

Camperoo

Monthly Membership for Kids Activities in Technology and Creativity (Classpass for Kids)
Every weekend, 70 Million parents wake up and wonder, what am I going to do with my kids? Camperoo solves that problem with Weekend Workshops Memberships ( $29/session or $99/mo unlimited ) which are 2 hour mini-camps held on Saturdays and Sundays that feature ...

Edthena

video coaching platform for teachers
Edthena helps teachers get better at teaching by bringing the process of observation and feedback online. Teachers upload video of their classroom instruction, and share it to coaches who provide feedback at specific moments in time. It's like athletes getting ...

Lumoid

Try before you buy service, for consumer electronics
Lumoid is a try before you buy service for consumer electronics. 

Bridge US

Making immigration easy and affordable. TurboTax meets Redfin for the immigration process.
LexSpot makes the convoluted and expensive immigration process easy and affordable. Our online platform allows users to get personalized information about their immigration options, find and compare qualified legal providers, and save up to 80% on legal fees through ...

RelayRides

RelayRides is the world's leading peer-to-peer car rental marketplace, disrupting the $60 billion global car rental industry by connecting vehicle owners whose cars would otherwise be idle with people who need a car. RelayRides has built a vibrant community of ...

Sidecar

The world's transportation marketplace
We provide a mobile platform and app that allows people interested in providing transportation to be matched up with people that need rides. In the year we have been active in San Francisco, the transportation landscape has changed completely. We have since ...

Venovate

Online brokerage platform for investing in alternative assets
Venovate Marketplace is an online platform for accredited investors and institutions to invest and trade alternative assets, which include private equity, hedge funds, real estate, natural resources, and venture capital. Venovate has built an online platform where ...

Whim

Concierge for your dating life
Created by a former Product Lead from OkCupid Labs and backed by 500 Startups, Whim is a mobile app that curates and coordinates first dates for this week. Going from a match to a date is now seamless, as we have eliminated the frustration of messaging, waiting, ...

TrustCloud

Ensuring Trust, Safety and Quality in Sharing Platforms
Trust in the Sharing Economy TrustCloud is a credit platform for Peer Marketplaces that measures virtuous behavior online to build a portable and contextual trust score you can use anywhere.

Floqq

Online Education
Floqq is the biggest marketplace for online video courses in Spain and Latin America. Floqq is a free service that offers the highest number of online video courses in order of you to learn whatever you wish, guided by experts in the field. Speak a different ...

Move Loot

The easiest way to buy and sell used furnishings.
Moving? Downsizing? Refurnishing? Finally, there's an easier way to buy and sell home furnishings: www.moveloot.com Move Loot rationalizes the fragmented used furniture market by serving as an intermediary: picking up furniture from sellers, storing it in our ...

1-Page

Next Generation Enterprise Recruitment Process
We are the Next Generation Enterprise (500+ employees) Recruiting Platform based on co-founder Patrick Riley's "The One-Page Proposal" (NYT all-time best seller). 1-Page completely gamifies the entire talent acquisition process, providing Social Intelligence and ...

HelloMD

Priority Access to the World's Best Doctors
HelloMD provides access to the top 1% of doctors.

TradeGig

Bargain. Exchange. Serviced.
Imagine a community where you receive services from John, Mary, and Peter by offering your skills to Jennifer. Welcome to TradeGig (TG). TG is a social barter community where you offer what you do best to anyone, from painting portraits, repairing household ...

CareLinx

Caregiver Marketplace: Disrupting the $100B+ in-home care market. AARP Winner!
CareLinx is a professional caregiver marketplace that is disrupting the +$100 Billion in-home come care service delivery market. CareLinx is saving families over $10,000 a year compared to traditional agencies. CareLinx eliminates the need for traditional brick ...

Cleanify

Cleaning Service Marketplace
Cleanify brings every cleaning service on demand. Access real-time pricing & availability of every service provider serving your area. Cleaning partners are offered a new revenue channel, free service management tools and more!

Uguru.me

On-Demand Tutoring Marketplace
uGuru offers on-demand, p2p, course specific tutoring to college students at 1/4 of the market price in minutes. The founders, Samir and Michael, went to Berkeley and later worked at Google together. Now with 500 Startups' help, they aim to promote collaborative ...

CustEx

Brands pay to hear what Customers Want and get Total Demand Data. Cool.
Ever get pissed off by an inferior product or service? That's what CustEx puts an end to while putting cash in your pocket. Instead of IDEO gods determining what you have to put up with, Customer masses decide. CustEx is purpose-built with opted-in passionate ...

Sourcery

Digital payments for the $220B wholesale food industry
Sourcery is developing a payments and commerce platform that focuses on the wholesale foodservice industry, a $300B+ market that still runs on 1980s technology: buyers search for products in paper catalogs, submit orders by fax or phone, and deal with paper invoices ...

Peek

Discover and book the best activities. peek.com/joinpeek
We know that an unforgettable trip is built on the special experiences you share with friends and family. Yet these activities are often difficult to find and even more challenging to book. Peek.com is changing this. We carefully curate our offering of high-quality ...

Kickpay

Marketplace for buying and selling invoices
We enable businesses to get paid immediately for their goods and services while enabling investors to access a whole new asset class, which they've never had access to. Our product is a marketplace for invoices, where businesses sell their account receivables to ...

Seesmic

Enhance your social media management with Hootsuite, the leading social media dashboard. Manage multiple networks and profiles and measure your campaign results.

Purse

Bitcoin Marketplace
Purse is the leading marketplace built on the blockchain. Purse connects Amazon shoppers with users who have Amazon gift card balances. Here's how to save 20% on anything at Amazon. 1. Sign up. 2. Add items to wish list. 3. Deposit bitcoins to new Purse wallet. Get ...

Mystery Science

Open-and-go lessons for elementary teachers that inspire kids to love science.
Mystery Science provides open-and-go lessons that inspire kids to love science. The online resource makes it easy for elementary school teachers to deliver an incredible science lesson without a science background. Rather than a textbook approach to science vocabulary, ...

Savvy

Learn from anyone.
What if you could tap into the expertise of anyone in the world?  Savvy is a global platform where learners and teachers connect for live, one on one video learning sessions.  One on one learning is the most effective way to learn anything, from how to manage ...

Skyara

Marketplace for things to do
Skyara is a marketplace for fun things to do, where individuals can share their hobbies and interests as bookable experiences for others. An experience is a personalized activity or service such as a biking tour, photography lessons, or lunch at a tech incubator. ...

Coworks

Invite-only marketplace for outstanding freelancers
Coworks is a collaboration platform for online freelance creatives and clients. Coworks let clients post jobs and hire high quality, trustworthy, candidates in a minute. We help clients avoid the hassle of sifting through low quality applications by the use of ...

Swapt

Bringing transparency to the residential rental market
Swapt helps you find the perfect apartment by connecting you to trusted information, advice and reviews for millions of rental properties across the United States. Swapt, which publicly launched in June, has amassed twice as many residential reviews across NYC, ...

TechnoRides

end to end logistic platform
​In 2012 Uber and Lyft entered the 64 billion worldwide taxi-transportation industry, creating tectonic shifts in the landscape.  An industry unchanged in decades was upended. Reaping billions of dollars in equity values, the upstarts appeared to have won. Technorides ...

GoodCall

Top of funnel sales automation
GoodCall delivers Sales Acceleration Technologies...

Playpass

Find and play sports. No sweat.
Playpass helps players find and play sports. All ages and skill levels. Find the best local camps, leagues and tournaments, across 30+ sports. For sports organizers, Playpass offers EasySignup and PlayerFinder -- powerful tools to manage and grow player registrations. Non-pro ...

We Created It

A beautiful way to find who made what
We answer the simple question 'who made what' product. Learn more at www.WeCreatedIt.com

Theorem

The Marketplace for Independent Fashion
Theorem is the marketplace for independent fashion. We help people connect with and purchase from independent brands around the world. Users make offers. Merchants see the data and choose a price. Anyone at or above the price point receives their purchase in ...

Flinja

Google Now for Skilled Work.
Let's face it - it's getting increasingly difficult to poach the best young undergrads from the best schools out there. Scouring through job boards, posting on university career portals, and reviewing candidates derived from LinkedIn or Craigslist is painful. Imagine ...

99designs

99designs is the #1 marketplace for crowdsourced graphic design. We connect passionate designers from around the globe with customers seeking quality, affordable design services.

SPOKEFLY

Everyone's bike.
Spokefly is an on-demand bike rental service. Rent an awesome bike to ride from the touch of your phone. One click matches you with the best bike for you to ride right now.

NeonMob

A marketplace for collectors and creators of digital art.
NeonMob blends elements of e-commerce marketplaces and social networks to create a truly unique product. "Collectors" discover and collect high-quality original art created by digital artists and participate in engaging behavior including trading and discovery. ...

Given Goods Co.

Curated home goods and lifestyle accessories making authentic impact.
Given Goods curates beautiful, high-quality home goods and everyday accessories that make authentic impact—a brand fit for the modern lifestyle. Whole Foods capitalized on a fragmented yet emerging industry with strong, existing demand by creating a brand that ...

Karangoo.com

"Enabling friends to purchase awesome things together"
Karangoo.com enables groups of like-minded people to purchase something awesome together. Our platform allows groups to split an expense or finance something in a group setting for free. Create your own group or join an existing one, it's as easy as inviting your ...

Stride Health

The health marketplace is sick. We're here to make it better.
Health insurance recommendations tuned and tailored to your life. The doctors you want, your prescriptions at the best price, and the care you need if things go wrong.

Gogohire

The Easiest Way To Hire Top Sales Talent.
Hiring good salespeople is notoriously difficult and a universal problem. Job boards = Poor quality and resume sifting LinkedIn = Access to everyone, but poor InMail response rates 3rd party recruiting firms = Expensive and provide a poor user experience We ...

SixDoors

Anti-Amazon For Local
*Company is now shut down* Independent retailers ($60B in sales in top 25 US cities) are for the most part not equipped to thrive in the post Amazon Prime era. However, many consumers still love shopping local. After talking to tens of store owners and working ...

Appbistro

Tripping.com

Tripping is the #1 search engine for vacation home rentals. Think: Kayak for Airbnb
Tripping is the #1 search engine for vacation rentals. With over 2 million rentals in 100,000 cities, we give travelers the widest selection of unique accommodations around the world. Based in San Francisco, Tripping was founded by tech industry veterans from Expedia, ...

Spotwag

Never leave your pet with a stranger
Spotwag removes the social discomfort in asking for help. It's an alternative to kennels and pet hotels. Pet owners already go direct to friends for help watching their pets, but now without the awkwardness or pressure of a face-to-face request. It leverages users' ...

SoundBetter

Freelancer.com for Music Production
SoundBetter is a services marketplace that helps musicians worldwide find and hire production professionals. Home recording is exploding due to the lower cost of recording. There are over 3M recording musicians worldwide and growing. But recording is only the ...

OutTrippin

Expert travel advice, on tap.
OutTrippin helps you plan your perfect trip with personalized recommendations and expert travel advice, on tap. We bring a data-driven yet people-powered approach to personalized travel planning, like a TripAdvisor that's tailored just for you... and not rubbish. ...

Fleet

Streamline international commercial shipping
Fleet provides a cloud based platform that businesses can use to book transportation for international freight. Making arrangements for goods to get from a factory in one country, across an ocean, to a customer in another country is a complicated, expensive ...

CareLuLu

Online Marketplace for Daycare & Preschool
CareLuLu finds the best daycare for you! CareLuLu is a marketplace that connects parents with licensed daycares or preschools that fits their family's specific needs. With CareLuLu, parents avoid the hassle of spending hours searching Google or driving around ...

Relieve

"Instacart" of Medical Cannabis
We provide medical cannabis patients with professional and timely delivery of medicine. Our online marketplace platform gives patients the power of choice and convenience. In just a few clicks on a smartphone, medical marijuana patients can get their medicine ...

Veed.me

Video Production Marketplace
Online video marketing is an exploding market of $7B, growing annually by 25% and taking over the $30B market of text ads. Veed.me is a video production marketplace that connects businesses that need a promotinal video, with a community of talented videographers ...

BottlesTonight

Mobile bottle service booking.
BottlesTonight makes iOS and Android apps for purchasing bottle service and VIP admission tix at top nightclubs. (ticketing currently in beta) Open BottlesTonight and you are presented with a curated list of nightclubs. Select a club, pick your bottles or tickets ...

Zaznu

on-demand ridesharing community
Zaznu’s smartphone app matches everyday people in their own car with people nearby for shared rides. It’s a fast, safe and fun way to get around the city, meet new people and keep extra cars off the road. Zaznu is currently operating across 6 cities in Brazil: ...

Ekwity

The Business and Job creation ecosystem
Ekwity (ek·wi·ty • ˈekwitē) is a unique professional platform that enables working relationships by providing entrepreneurs and cash-strapped businesses specific alternatives to cash to compensate new hires and contractors.

RushTix

Netflix for live events
RushTix is the first unlimited subscription for local arts and culture. Starting at just $39 per month, members can choose new events as often as they like. We’re connecting and engaging folks passionate about the arts. A RushTix membership gets culture seekers ...

UpNest

Agents Compete, You Win! ™. Our marketplace is changing real estate.
UpNest is an online real estate marketplace that matches home buyers and sellers with top, local agents who compete for their business. Buyers and sellers receive personalized quotes offering competitive commissions, rebates, and services. Our no-obligation service ...

Prosper

TareasPlus

Video course marketplace in spanish
Tareasplus is an educational marketplace for video courses created by the best teachers in the world, built around a knowledge tree designed to guide students through the exact curriculum they need to achieve whatever they desire

Musey

Discover & purchase products in plain sight. Team went to Harvard, Yale
Mobile app for design inspiration in the real world. Discover and purchase exquisite products in plain sight, seamlessly. We're currently in private beta. Our team is creative, hardworking and process-driven. We're based out of SoMa (SF). Our investors were the ...

Blurb

Make your own book. Create beautiful photo books, custom books, wedding albums, cookbooks, photo albums. Make, publish, share and sell your book.

Zenlist

Google AdSense for classifieds
Zenlist is like Google ads for classifieds: It lets anyone with a website or blog quickly and easily publish relevant "Zenlistings", and generate revenue. Publishers can add Zenlistings in IAB-standard banner ad sizes and/or as a standalone classified ads section. ...

Desks Near Me

Connecting people with flexible workspace.
Desks Near Me brings together mobile workers searching for space to work with businesses of all sizes that have unused spare space to rent. Businesses list their spare space to reduce their overhead, expand their network and access tools to more easily manage ...

MyCrowd QA

On-demand QA for websites, landing pages & mobile apps.
MyCrowd is a powerful on-demand QA testing platform for websites, mobile apps, email and landing pages. Test almost anything with explorative Bug Hunts or detailed Test Scripts. MyCrowd has a community of 25,000 high quality QA testers in the US and around the ...

Pixc

On demand product image editing for eCommerce stores (500 Startups Batch 13)
Pixc provides on demand product image editing. We help eCommerce stores and individuals selling online increase their sales with better product images. We remove the background and touch up the photo within 24 hours. A great product on a contrasting background ...

Topic

Eventbrite for rec sports
Topic is an app focused on making it easier for people to do sports, starting with discovering the best sports games and leagues nearby. Have more than 30 000 sports games worldwide. Discover and RSVP in two taps. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/topic-app/id852138771

EasyFridge

Personalized Grocery Recommendations from a Real Person
EasyFridge is a subscription grocery delivery & meal planning service for busy people. Customers get a dedicated shopper who creates a personally-tailored meal plan, then buys & delivers all their groceries once a week, every week. Each shopper's #1 goal is to ...

Ravti

Commercial HVAC management marketplace
Ravti builds software to manage HVAC for commercial real estate. We are an online marketplace that connects property managers to a network of vendors. We allow them to easily receive multiple, competitive bids and provide a single spot to track the status of their ...

Creative Action Network

Etsy meets Upworthy.
The Creative Action Network is a marketplace for meaningful merchandise from a passionate community of artists & designers around the world. We invite artists to build a collection of content around a topic or cause. We turn their work into merchandise and sell ...

OnMyBlock

Find and rent the best college houses, apartments, and sublets.
OnMyBlock is a website and iPhone app that helps college students find and rent the best place to live off-campus.

Autolist

Changing how cars get bought and sold
Autolist is a new, fast-growing automotive search engine. From day one, you're part of the Autolist family. We have an awesome catered lunch every day, fully stocked kitchen, gym membership, top notch health care, happy hours on Friday, and fun monthly events ...

DogBff

Social commerce for dogs...and their owners.
We're applying our years of social games experience to a create a highly engaging mobile social platform for Dog Owners. The way we see it: we've created passionate users out of virtual worlds and were able to engage and monetize them, why not apply that knowledge ...

AskYourUsers

Democratizing access to experts & professionals.
The AskYourUsers marketplace makes it fast, easy and affordable for anyone to hire industry experts and targeted LinkedIn professionals for 15-minute online consulting jobs. Already, our customers include entrepreneurs, product managers, marketing professionals, ...

CoverHound

Marketplace
CoverHound is where smart shoppers compare and purchase insurance online. We’re building the industry’s first true rate comparison shopping platform that allows consumers to get multiple, instant, & accurate rates from all of the top providers and to buy a policy ...

perkmylife

my educational platform
perkmylife is an educational platform to study, network and build a professional edu profile. We let experts and teachers create their own courses and sell them or publish them for free to the community of users engaged by our motivational algorithms. Sign up ...

Unwind App

Uber for Massage
Massage is great, but booking a massage is a pain. Unwind is going to make booking a massage with a qualified therapist as easy as booking a black car through Uber. Unwind will immediately connect you with a massage therapist who is available for you on your ...

HearItLocal

The booking and crowd-funding platform for live music.
Hear It Local is the booking and payment platform for live music. Our platform empowers fans to discover top talent, book the band, and invite friends to the event. Event hosts can even pre-sell tickets to their house concert, fundraiser, or live music party. ...

Maestro Market

Marketplace for talent (AirBnB for talent)
Maestro Market which is an interactive marketplace for people seeking and providing personalized advice, unique experiences and direct connections to hand-picked experts across a wide variety of areas. Through Maestro Market, users will, for the first time, be ...

Local Heroes

Local Heroes helps people to connect with Local Experts around them over coffee
At Local Heroes we are meaningful connectors empowering people to share the knowledge they have to help others around them. We help our Local Heroes to "package" their amazing insights over a 30 min coffee conversations. Become smarter over coffee, Share and ...

Gigwell

The Worlds First Professional Music Marketplace
Gigwell is building the worlds first Professional Music Marketplace. Through our collaborative booking platform, we're changing the way entertainment bookings are made globally. Leveraging a network of thousands of music industry professionals and talent buyers, ...

ChickRx

Wellness Advice & Coaching
Women constantly seek advice on things like weight loss, skincare, relationships, sex, anxiety, etc. - it's an everyday behavior. But instead of talking to friends, which doesn't provide anonymity or the best information, they should be able to connect with the ...

perfecthitch

Find and compare services for your big event.
PerfectHitch is an online marketplace for event services such as catering, venues, or photography. Finding quality service providers for your event is hard. PerfectHitch allows individuals to directly place service requests on the site and automatically receive ...